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From: scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.std.c
Subject: Re: How can I find out cc or cpp symbols?
Keywords: cpp, cc, macros
Message-ID: <675@dtscp1.UUCP>
Date: 7 May 89 06:40:10 GMT
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Reply-To: scott@dtscp1.UUCP (Scott Barman)
Organization: Digital Transmission Systems (a subsidiary of DCA), Duluth, GA
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In article <7119@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>2.   Do not trust vendor-supplied symbols.  They are often wrong.  I
>found out from Usenet that some Sun machines define "vax".  Worse,
>System V machines define "unix".

Not that I am any lover of System V but:

	Isn't System V Unix?

I'm not trying to start a religous argument (lord knows I did this once and
10K of flaming email puts a damper on a day :-), but forgetting you feelings
twoards System V, I would think it would be OK for "unix" to be defined.
Besides, I think our AT&T source license call is The Unix Timesharing 
System V.

-- 
scott barman
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